Tucked into the plains of southern Alberta, the hamlet of Bindloss sits within Special Area No. 2, roughly 97 kilometres north of Medicine Hat and about 10 kilometres west of Highway 41. The community is small even by rural Alberta standards, with a recorded population of just 14 people in the 1991 Census of Population. Very little remains of the original town site today, giving the area a quiet, weathered character that reflects the passage of time across the open prairie landscape.
Bindloss takes its name from Harold Edward Bindloss, an English author who wrote numerous Western novels. The hamlet also carries the memory of a significant event from September 2017, when an attempt to dispose of unexploded ordnance at nearby Canadian Forces Base Suffield sparked a fire that swept across 220 square kilometres of the base and spread a further 58 square kilometres beyond its boundaries. The fire reached Bindloss and resulted in the deaths of 260 head of cattle, animals either lost directly in the blaze or humanely put down due to severe burn injuries.